Ex-Yahoo Board Member Calls CEO Resume Scandal A 'Catastrophe'

Eric
Hippeau, one of Yahoo's original board members, who stepped
down last year, has summed up the company's latest troubles in
this tweet:

The hapless company: Yahoo goes from mishap to catastrophe, all
self-inflicted.

Earlier today, activist shareholder Dan Loeb pointed out that CEO
Scott Thompson never got a degree in computer science as his
official biography claimed.

But it wasn't the lie that made Hippeau tweet. It was
Yahoo's response that the whole thing was an "inadvertent
mistake." This despite the fact that Thompson had the same fib on
his bio back when he was the CTO of PayPal.
Apparently, Dan Loeb did a more thorough background check than
Yahoo's board.

Hippeau was one of Yahoo's founding board members in 1996, but
was replaced by Akamai's David Kenny in February 2011. He hasn't
been shy about criticizing the company lately on Twitter
-- in March, he called Yahoo's patent lawsuit against Facebook
a "pathetic
and heartbreaking last stand."